RED SKIRTS ON CLYDESIDE
Red Skirts on Clydeside shown with You Play Your part (Cert NC 12+)
Saturday 14 May, 15:00 (donations welcome)
Pearce Institute, Govan
The Pearce Institute will hold a screening of Red Skirts on Clydeside which tells the story of how in 1915, a year into the First World War, landlords in Glasgow put up tenement rents, women in Govan responded with a rent strike. In Red Skirts on Clydeside, directors Jenny Woodley and Christine Bellamy chart the careers of Jean Ferguson, Mary Barbour and Helen Crawford Agnes Dollan through their involvement in the strike.
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